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Berlin 1984. Sebastian findet den Nachlass seines Großvaters aus einer anderen Zeit: zehn Briefe, geschrieben von einem ehemaligen Häftling während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Er setzt alles in Bewegung, um das Geheimnis um den Gefangenen zu entschlüsseln - Brief für Brief rekonstruiert er das Geschehene. Wäre da nicht Sebastians Vater, der die Nachforschungen verhindern will. Wer war sein Großvater wirklich? Die Suche nach Antworten führt Sebastian...
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This classic account of the birth of a legendary group is the truly authentic version of Queen's rise to stardom. Author Mark Hodkinson interviewed over 60 friends and colleagues of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon to piece together a fascinating jigsaw of anecdotes from the days when the future superstars were playing with bands like The Reaction, The Opposition, 1984 and Sour Milk. Intimate, suprising and meticulously researched,...
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The life of Eric Arthur Blair greatly impacted the work he wrote under the name 'George Orwell'. The Spanish Civil War, wartime Britain, and the rise of totalitarianism all fed into seminal works like Animal Farm and 1984 whose impact is still felt today.But what would Orwell have written had he lived in another timeline? A world where his experiences in Spain were different, and the Second World War broke out over Czechoslovakia, not Poland?Mark...
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Are we allowed to scrutinize public art, even if the public doesn't pay for it? It only took the city of Buffalo 15 minutes to shut it off and five days for Mayor Jimmy Griffin to tear down Billie Lawless' sculpture "Green Lightning" in 1984. It may have had something to do with dancing neon figures that resembled Mr. Peanut. But, to this day, it's unclear if the artist tricked the city or the city acted hastily. For the first time, through interviews,...
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A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her nursing training when she was 16, the youngest age girls could do so at the time. She continued...
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Between 1977 and 1984 Gang Of Four pioneered the concept of the indie Guitar band that could make you think as well as dance. This is the fascinating story of how the Leeds-based outfit emerged at the height of punk and helped take it in a whole new direction, adding elements of funk, disco, dub reggae and experimental rock.
Through interviews with all the original band members, managers, A&R men and musicians who joined GO4 later, author Paul...
7) Passer l'été
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"Passer l'été" nous précipite au coeur d'un été caniculaire, alors que la sécheresse et les feux de forêts font rage. Dans le jardin d'une maison familiale, on subit, dans l'impuissance et le repli, la brûlure de cette chaleur écrasante.
Page après page, ce sont les mutations profondes et inquiétantes de notre environnement qui apparaissent.
De tout être que l'on voit
arbre
ruisseau
roitelet
on se demande
s'il passera l'été.
À...
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"It was 1984. Prince ruled the airwaves. The Los Angeles Olympics had come and gone, taking with it a spotlight that had shone harshly on the city's night crawlers and left them thankful for the the shadows. AIDS was spreading its dark, black, wings over us all, and I was a happy guy. At least I thought I was, until things took a sudden turn for the deadly." – Marshall James It's been over a year since Marshall James first became intimately familiar...
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For over forty years, Leland Ryken has championed and modeled a Christian liberal arts education. His scholarship and commitment to integrating faith with learning in the classroom have influenced thousands of students who have sat under his winsome teaching. Published in honor of Professor Ryken and presented on the occasion of his retirement from Wheaton College, this compilation carries on his legacy of applying a Christian liberal arts education...
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In 1984 Edward Snow won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets for the first volume of these translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's watershed work, NEW POEMS, 1907. His work was praised for the resonance of the English and its faithfulness to the density and meaning of the German.
Like the poems in the first volume, these are presentations of objects, "thing-poems" (Dinggedichte). In 1902 Rilke left Germany for...
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Have you ever considered what your body language is communicating to the people around you? Are you looking to improve your power of persuasion so you can really knock it out of the park? Or do you want to become more skilled at understanding and reading people? If any of these questions resonated with you, this guide will be the training you need to take your success to the next level. From your head to your feet, your body is communicating something...